Saturday, December 20, 2014

Seeking Alpha: Philips Looks To Long-Time Laggard Volcano To Perk Up Its Healthcare Biz

It took a long time, but Volcano (NASDAQ:VOLC) finally found its buyer. Now the question is whether Philips (NYSE:PHG) can generate the growth and profits from Volcano's platform of technologies in intravascular imaging and therapeutics that Volcano's management never could. Investing more resources into image-guided therapeutics is not a bad call on the surface, but Philips must prove that it has moved past its legacy of below-average (if not outright poor) deal integration and must prove that the potential synergies between these two cath lab companies can win out over competitive threats from the likes of Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) and St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ).

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Philips Looks To Long-Time Laggard Volcano To Perk Up Its Healthcare Biz

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